{"title":"Acute Toxicity Ethanol Extract of Bidara Leaves (Ziziphus spina-christi L.) Against Liver and Kidney Function of White Rats","authors":"Nur Syamsi Dhuha, Haeria, H. Putri","doi":"10.37275/ehi.v1i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37275/ehi.v1i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Bidara plants have the efficacy as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory,antimicrobial, anti-fungal and prevents tumours. Bidara is efficacious to protecthuman DNA cells caused by damage from actinic radiation. This study aims toexplore the acute toxicity test of the ethanol extract of Bidara leaves using whitemice as experimental animals. A total of 30 white rats (Rattus norvegicus) Wistarstrain obtained from the Eureka Research Laboratory (Palembang, Indonesia)weighing between 200 - 250 grams. After one week of adaptation, the mice wererandomly divided into the following six groups, each containing five animals:Normal control group and Bidara extract group (50mg/kg BW; 150 mg/kg BW;450 mg/kg BW; 1350 mg/kg BW; and 4050 mg/kg BW). This study shows thatthe extract of Bidara leaves has a relatively high toxic dose, namely at a dose of4050 mg/kg BW. Bidara leaf extract at doses below 1500 mg/kg BW, shows notoxic effect on the liver. In conclusion, bidara leaf extract has a toxic dose above4000 mg/kg BW in Wistar white rats.","PeriodicalId":324796,"journal":{"name":"Eureka Herba Indonesia","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133318054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Bay Leaf Extract (Syzygium polyanthum) on Blood Sugar Regulation via GLUT4 Protein Regulation in White Rat Muscle Tissue Induced Aloxan","authors":"R. Hidayat, Lusia Hayati","doi":"10.37275/ehi.v1i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37275/ehi.v1i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition that disturbs the body's bloodsugar regulation. Bay leaves contain entirely various secondary metabolites,where this plant is rich in flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenes and glycosides. Thisstudy aims to assess the effect of bay leaf extract (Syzygium polyanthum) onblood sugar levels and the expression of GLUT4 protein in muscle tissue. A totalof 30 white rats (Rattus norvegicus) Wistar strain obtained from the EurekaResearch Laboratory (Palembang, Indonesia) weighing between 200 - 250 grams.Bay leaf simplicia was obtained from the Tawangmangu Herbal Research Center,Karanganyar, Indonesia. After 1 week of adaptation, the mice were randomlydivided into the following six groups, each containing 5 animals: Normal controlgroup, diabetes group (negative control), diabetes + metformin group (Met; 45mg / kg), Diabetes + BLE (75 mg/kg), diabetes + BLE group (150 mg / kg) anddiabetes + BLE group (300 mg/kg). Alloxan-induced white rats showed a verysignificant increase in blood sugar levels, where the use of the drug metforminwas able to reduce blood sugar levels significantly even though they had notreached the target blood glucose target of less than 200 mg / dL. The treatmentwith bay leaf extract was able to reduce blood sugar levels significantly. Theadministration of metformin drugs or bay leaf extract showed the ability toincrease the level of GLUT4 protein. In conclusion, bay leaf extract affectsreducing blood sugar levels in diabetes mellitus white rats by increasing glucoseintake to cells and tissues.","PeriodicalId":324796,"journal":{"name":"Eureka Herba Indonesia","volume":"27 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116827827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}